but for desiree carpenter, the love she shares with little oakley is an opportunity to give her babyver had herself. >> i never grew up with a mother. i didn't have that to go off of. i try my best to overcompensate for her, so she knows i'm here for her and i care for her. i try to give her that relationship, with her mom, that i will never have with mine. >> reporter: on a warm, windy evening, september 20 years ago, desiree's mother, and 19-year-old isamantha hopper, dropped off desiree at her grandmother's house, before driving off with her 2-year-old daughter, courtney. >> she always said she loved me. so, she left and never come back. days just weptnt on and on an o. i sat on my front parch, watching the road. >> reporter: samantha disappeared without a trace. despite a lengthy police investigation that went on two decades, there were no signs of her or her young daughter, courtney. vanished and missing more than 23 years. >> i feel there's so many missing person reports that every time you do that, you have to give them a picture. and i don't have no pictures left. i don't hav

. >> reporter: after about ten years as a new york city barista, desiree camacho decided it was time to nail down a new path, construction. >> each my own mom when i told her i was interested in doing that, why would you want to do that? that's a man's job. yeah, i need the man's money so i'm going to do the man's work, i guess. >> reporter: historically it has been a man's job, but now more and more women are joining the ranks. the industry boths one of the narrangansett bay rowest pay gaps with female construction workers earning about 95% of a male worker's median pay and jobs that often don't require a college degree. and as the number of women in construction has increased more than 50% in a decade to more than a million, it's in part because recruitment campaigns like this one. >> one of our big values is legacy. >> reporter: would you call women an untapped market? >> it's absolutely an untapped market. we're fighting shortages with one hand tied behind our back. >> reporter: frank tremmel is with the associated contractors of america which launched a digital outreach urging w

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. >> reporter: after about ten years as a new york city barista, desiree camacho decided it was timew path. construction. >> even my own mom when i told her i was interested in doing this, she's like, why would you want to do that? that's a man's job! i was just like, well, i need the man's money, so i'm going to do the man's work, i guess. >> reporter: and it historically has been a man's job, but now more women are joining its ranks. the industry boasts a pay gap. with female construction workers earning about 95% of a male worker's median pay, in jobs that often don't require a college degree. and as the number of women in construction has increased more than 50% in a decade to more than a million, it's in part because of recruitment campaigns like this one. >> one of our big values is legacy. >> reporter: would you call women an untapped market? >> it's absolutely an untapped market. we are fighting workforce shortages with one hand tied behind our back. >> reporter: frank tremail is with the associated general contractors of america, which launched a digital outreach urging wome

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desiree and jeff jolley say they parked in the spot on larkin and union streets for the last 25 years a red zone. the paint was extremely, extremely faded. spencer, my energy is fading about now. we have enough energy to tell everybody about the pending forecast. spencer: it looks like a fading chance of showers but let me show you what is going on. this is a rather impressive blanket of moisture in the upper atmosphere and in the middle levels as well. it looks like we have rain all over the area right now especially over the east bay but nothing is being reported in terms of measurable rain at any of our reporting stations but some must be hitting the ground in some spots. much of it is evaporating before hitting the ground. over the sancho cruise area and the mount hamilton areas as where we show the greatest amount of moisture. breezy conditions at the surface. 22 miro per hour -- 20 to mile-per-hour winds in san francisco. the inland areas away from the bay and the coast, it is up to four degrees warmer then this time last night. here is the view looking down to parts of san fran

debate that is needed towards this country being able to continue to hold together and my name is desiree. i'm with the san marco bookstore. i want thank you guys for coming out tonight. i did for your first hear about this book in january when i was reviewing the summer catalog with my penguin random house rep. and it seemed like an interesting topic. and when i saw that dr. seabrook was from usf, i thought well, i think that would be great. let's do an event. they were thrilled. they reached out to him and here we are now. i did not know that we would have so much activity in our state in the last few months between now and then. and i have to confess that i don't know much about gerrymandering, and i can honestly say i have never met an

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my name is desiree. i'm with the san marco bookstore. i want thank you guys for coming out tonight. i did for your first hear about this book in january when i was reviewing the summer catalog with my penguin random house rep. and it seemed like an interesting topic. and when i saw that dr. seabrook was from usf, i thought well, i think that would be great. let's do an event. they were thrilled. they reached out to him and here we are now. i did not know that we would have so much activity in our state in the last few months between now and then. and i have to confess that i don't know much about gerrymandering, and i can honestly say i have never met an expert. does anyone else feel the same? we are looking forward to a conversation that will enlighten and educate us. for those of you who have not had a chance to scan you on f's faculty page. please let me introduce dr. seabrook, a professor and interim chair, the department of political science and public administration at the university of north florida. his research examines the intersection of law and politics in the united sta